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Low Latency Taking Off in Latam

The news this week that Direct Edge is planning to set up shop in Rio de Janeiro is indicative of the growing importance of Latin America as a financial trading region, and one where low-latency technology is playing a leading role in transforming the marketplace. And the action is not just happening in Brazil, with…

Exegy Adds B-Pipe; Integrates Consolidated and Direct Data Feeds

With the integration of Bloomberg’s B-Pipe, Exegy is supporting its first consolidated data feed on its ticker plant appliance, augmenting the direct data feed coverage that it already offers. The implementation is already live at one hedge fund customer in London, say company execs. B-Pipe offers coverage from “250 exchanges and thousands of data sources…

Steve Davey Joins RIMES as Head of IT Infrastructure & Information Security

To support the company’s continued growth, RIMES today announced that Steve Davey has joined the company as Head of IT Infrastructure and Information Security, effective immediately. Reporting jointly to the CEO and the CTO, Davey will be responsible for maintaining RIMES’ global IT infrastructure and data centers in order to further enhance the delivery and…

Guaranteed Messaging with Parallel Persistence from Informatica Ultra Messaging

To implement guaranteed messaging, some messaging vendors employ a messaging broker and a store-and-forward messaging model, to ensure that the message is persisted on a hard disk before sending along to consumers. While this model does simplify late join and loss recovery, since all messages flow through one central server, it carries a hefty price…

Azul Zings Java for Low Latency

Azul Systems has released version 5.0 of its Zing realtime Java Virtual Machine for Linux, eliminating the need for a hypervisor layer, and thus making it more attractive to developers of low-latency trading applications. In earlier versions, the required hypervisor virtualisation added unwelcome latency. Zing is 100% Java-standard JVM, which is based on Oracle’s HotSpot…

Ahead of the Low-Latency Summit, Here’s Some Background Reading

Unless you’ve been living on Mars (and sadly it looks like a Russian space probe will not be visiting soon), then you’ll know that next Thursday I am hosting the Low-Latency Summit in New York City. If you are in fact a Mars resident, then you’ve just a few days to register online (it closes…

Interactive Data Nabs Doe for Trading Solutions

While it’s not exactly shouting about it, Interactive Data Corp.’s 3rd quarter financial  results announcement noted that Emmanuel Doe has joined the company to run its Trading Solutions business. Until recently, Doe was a global business manager at Thomson Reuters, focusing on high frequency trading. At Interactive Data – which he joined at the end…

FIA Replay: Event Driven Trading – Should You Consider It?

A few weeks ago, I was in Chicago for the FIA Expo, and the nice people at CFN Services asked me to moderate a panel on “Event Driven Trading – Should You Consider It?” Of course, I said yes. For those wondering, event driven trading means trading on news, as opposed to market prices that…

Bats Adds Binary

Bats Europe that is, which just added a binary protocol for order execution to the FIX protocol that it already supports. The new facility reduces latency that’s inherent in the more verbose FIX connectivity. A full suite of order types will be available using Binary Order Entry, so trading firms can opt for one or…

Occupy Latency?

Well it’s Friday, hence the wacky headline. The exact goals of the Occupy Movement might be hard for many to fathom, but their slogan “We are the 99%” has stuck in many people’s minds. That includes mine as I was completing a white paper for CFN Services on the benefits of leveraging managed infrastructure for…